Monday, February 27, 2017

The Laboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control
(PI Ludo Max, Ph.D.) at the University of Washington (Seattle) announces an
open post-doctoral position in the areas of sensorimotor integration and sensorimotor
learning for speech production. The position will involve experimental work
on both typical speech and stuttering. The lab is located in the University of
Washington's Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and has additional
affiliations with the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Department of
Bioengineering. See http://faculty.washington.edu/ludomax/lab/
for more information.

The successful candidate will use speech sensorimotor adaptation paradigms
(with digital signal processing perturbations applied to the real-time auditory
feedback or mechanical forces applied to the jaw by a robotic device) to
investigate aspects of learning and control in stuttering and nonstuttering adults
and children. In addition, the candidate will use electroencephalographic (EEG)
techniques to investigate auditory-motor interactions during speech movement planning
in the same populations.

The position is initially for one year (a second-year extension
is possible contingent upon satisfactory performance and productivity) with a
preferred starting date in the spring or early summer of 2017. Applicants
should have the Ph.D. degree by the start of the appointment. Review of
applications will begin immediately. Candidates with a Ph.D. degree in
neuroscience, cognitive/behavioral neuroscience, motor control/kinesiology,
biomedical engineering, communication disorders/speech science, and related
fields, are encouraged to apply.

We seek a candidate with excellent verbal and written
communication skills who is strongly motivated and has substantial computer
programming experience (in particular MATLAB and/or R).

For more information, please contact lab director Ludo Max, Ph.D. (LudoMax@uw.edu). Applications can be submitted to the same
e-mail address. Interested candidates should submit (a) a cover letter
describing their research experiences, interests, and goals, (b) a curriculum
vitae, (c) the names and contact information of three individuals who can serve
as references, and (d) reprints of relevant journal publications.

The University of Washington is an
affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants
will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other
things, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, status as protected
veterans, or status as qualified individuals with disabilities.

Friday, February 24, 2017

The Guenther Lab at Boston University is seeking applications for a postdoctoral associate in computational neuroscience and neuroimaging of speech in normal and disordered populations. The Guenther Lab is one of the world's preeminent speech, neuroscience laboratories, and the associate will work with a team of experts in neuroimaging, computational modeling, and neural data collection and analysis within the Guenther Lab, the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Required Skills:

PhD in cognitive or computational neuroscience, biomedical engineering, speech, language and hearing science or related field. Strong written and oral communication skills required as well as experience with neural data analysis. Preference to candidates with strong computer programming (Matlab, Python, C++) and statistics backgrounds. Knowledge of speech motor control processes and/or computational modeling methods are desired. Salary will be aligned with experience and NIH guidelines. Two year commitment required.

The position is available immediately. Interested applicants should forward a CV, cover letter, and two letters of recommendation to Frank Guenther (guenther@bu.edu).

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

Monday, February 20, 2017

The NYU Neuroscience of Language Lab (http://www.psych.nyu.edu/nellab/) has openings for research scientists, which could be realized either as pre-doctoral RAships or as a post-doc. The RAs could be based either in our Abu Dhabi or New York labs. A post-doctoral fellow would be based in Abu Dhabi.

A BA/BS, MA/MS or PhD in a cognitive science-related discipline (psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, etc.) or computer science is required.

The hired person would ideally have experience with psycho- and neurolinguistic experiments, a background in statistics and some programming ability (especially Python and Matlab). A strong computational background and knowledge Arabic would both be big plusses.

The pre/post-doc's role will depend on the specific qualifications of the person hired, but will in all cases involve MEG research on structural and/or semantic aspects of language.

In Abu Dhabi, salary and benefits, including travel and lodging, are quite generous. We are looking to start these position in summer 2017. Evaluation of applications will begin immediately.

To apply, please email cover letter, CV and names of references to Liina Pylkkänen at liina.pylkkanen@nyu.edu and Alec Marantz at marantz@nyu.edu. For the RAships, please indicate if you have a preference for either Abu Dhabi or New York.

Friday, February 10, 2017

Postdoctoral Fellowship: The Department of
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue
University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship from the
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National
Institutes of Health beginning July 1, 2017. Applicants must be U.S. citizens
or have permanent resident status. This will be a two-year appointment. Individuals
may seek training in any of the following overarching areas: (1) Foundational;
(2) Developmental Disorders; (3) Neurological and Degenerative Disorders. Potential
mentors include: Alexander Francis, Stacey Halum, Michael Heinz, Jessica Huber,
David Kemmerer, Keith Kluender, Ananthanarayan (Ravi) Krishnan, Laurence
Leonard, Amanda Seidl, Preeti Sivasankar, Elizabeth Strickland, Christine Weber,
and Ronnie Wilbur. Applicants are encouraged to contact appropriate individuals
on this list prior to submitting an application. A description of the research
areas of these potential mentors can be found at http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/research/areas.html. Application materials should include a statement of interest including
desired research trajectory, three letters of recommendation, a curriculum
vitae, and copies of relevant publications.
These materials should be sent to Elizabeth A. Strickland, Project Director,
at estrick@purdue.edu. Deadline for submission of applications is February
28, 2017. Purdue University is an equal opportunity/equal access/affirmative
action employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce. www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Two postdoctoral positions are available in the University
of Pittsburgh Departments of Neurosurgery and Psychology. The research involves
the use of invasive deep brain electrical recording and stimulation in patients
with Parkinson’s disease to study subcortical contributions to speech
production. One of the Postdoctoral Associates will work closely with a
mentorship team led by Dr. Mark Richardson and the other will work closely with
a mentorship team led by Julie Fiez.Support for this position comes from a recently awarded BRAIN Initiative
grant (Research Opportunities Using Invasive Neural Recording and Stimulating
Technologies in the Human Brain, U01), for which Dr. Richardson is the PI.
Other co-Investigators include Tom Mitchell and Lori Holt (CMU), Diane Litman,
Rob Turner, Sue Shaiman and Mike Dickey (Pitt), Stan Anderson and Nathan Crone
(JHU).

A major strength of this project is the complimentary nature
of extensive, multi-disciplinary expertise from team members at the University
of Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie Mellon University. This
combined expertise allows us to employ a novel combination of classical
analytic methods and more recent machine learning methods for supervised and
exploratory analyses to document the neural dynamics of basal ganglia and
cortical activity during speech production.

Job Responsibilities:

Assume an integrated role in all aspects of 1)
administration of behavioral protocols, 2) intraoperative speech data
collection, with advisory role for pre- and post-surgical data collection, 3)
data analysis performed independently, including application of speech
processing and machine learning algorithms to analyze collected data, and 4)
manuscript and grant writing.

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Greg Hickok is Professor of Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine, Editor-in-Chief of Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, and author of The Myth of Mirror Neurons. DavidPoeppel, after several years as Professor of Linguistics and Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, is now Professor of Psychology at NYU. Hickok and Poeppel first crossed paths in 1991 at MIT in the McDonnell-Pew Center for Cognitive Neuroscience where Hickok was a post doc, and Poeppel a grad student. Meeting up again a few years later at a Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting in San Francisco, they began a collaboration aimed at developing an integrated model of the functional anatomy of language. Research in both the Hickok and Poeppel labs is supported by NIDCD.